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MSI PM8M3-v (MS-7211) Not recognizing hard drive.

Zabarang

Posted 30 January 2007 - 12:44 AM

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If this is a repost I'm sorry. I have been looking on this site for several hours for my answer LOL.
I am going to be long winded but it is to let you all know what I have done so I don't cover the same ground again, sorry. My PC stats are in my profile, hope they are visible. Last thing, if it makes a diff the video card is not installed yet it is new also.
Ok here goes. SATA is new to me so please bear with me. I am replacing an IDE Hd that crashed beyond all hopes. My mobo is a MSI PM8M3, I bought a WD Caviar SE 160Gb SATA 300 to replace the old one. Western Digital customer service took me as far as they could. My mobo is SATA 150 so we put jumper in to make Hd compatible and used WD driver disc to format HD. It is formated to NTFS split 50/50 partitions. BIOS is set to boot Cd first then Hd. Hard disc boot priority sees my Hd "SCSI-0 : WDC WD1600JS-00MHB1". In the MSI forum I was told to set SATA enabled and keep IDE enabled, both are. I was also told to set SATA as a bootable device, I can't find that any where in the BIOS. After I said that I got no more help from them. I am connected with all new cables and my P/S is new and SATA compatible. When I go to install windows 2K Sp3 I get all the way to the point where it asks if I want to install, repair win 2K, I pick install and it gives me the message there is no hard drive to install op system. This is my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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SRX660

Posted 30 January 2007 - 07:14 AM

SRX660

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When you start installing windows within the first minute or so of the installation Windows will prompt you to press F6 to install RAID or SCSI drivers, do this. Windows will continue to install then ask you to locate the driver. now with the floppy disk created earlier in drive A: select the driver and hit Enter.

Zabarang

Posted 30 January 2007 - 11:25 PM

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I have done that and gotten the same reply I always get, the file txtsetup.oem could not be found. The floppy is good. I have tried it in this pc and also took the one out of this pc and tried it in the pc I'm working on and got the same response. I searched the driver disc, the file is there 3 times. The driver is off MSI's web site and it is for that mobo, I was very careful to get the right one. I found a post on MSI's forum that said with this mobo this happens some times just to keep trying. After 30 tries I don't think it is going to work "I know the 31st would be the one that worked LOL". I went to the link on the previous post and followed directions there and found a lot of what I have already done. I have never had a problem stump me like this, I am getting close to BFH mode LOL. I have a question about bios. In IDE primary master setting in standard cmos features what is hard disc S.M.A.R.T and should it stay disabled?

Zabarang

Posted 01 February 2007 - 11:31 AM

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I would like to thank you for your help. I never was able to get the operating system installed by any of these ways so I borrowed an old Hd and formatted it after all was done I copied it to the new Hd. Now All I have to deal with is a sound prob "lack of" and on bootup it is showing 2 op systems. LOL. Can't have good without earning it. Again thank you for your help.

CitadelSystems

Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:49 PM

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Dealing with this pain in the rear right now. Single drive on the RAID. Make sure on MSI's site that you choose the correct OS. For XP it has a floppy driver, while for vista it doesn't. Only a RAID driver which gives the txtsetup.oem error.